Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grips with everything from U.N. revision to the long-range housing bill (see Housing). In the Senate, Minnesota's Joe Ball hitched up his trousers for a whirl at refurbishing the Taft-Hartley law. In the House, committeemen met behind closed doors to debate extension of the reciprocal trade agreements...
...Berlin's price too steep for Soviet pockets. It would take the steadiness and quiet resolution of the American military commander (to date, exemplary). It would take the effort of countless lesser officials who, despite the vagaries of American policy, continue their little-publicized work of rebuilding Berlin trade unions, newspapers, subways. It would take, also, the resolution of thousands of American men & women who, despite their suburban comfort, belong to this same Berlin which is ringed by enough Soviet tanks and planes, thinly veiled from view, to hurl a major offensive toward the Rhine...
...American Republic Affairs. From long experience, Daniels had concluded that the policy of ignoring de facto governments was silly: it was a relic of the days of kingdoms and duchies; in today's world, nonrecognition, or the threat of it, frightened no one. Moreover, recognition or no, trade and communication between nations always seemed to continue; it was better to have an ambassador on hand to supervise them...
...called for restoration of a free market in international trade which, he said, we do not have today. Appropriate legislation is in order, he continued, to secure this...
...with the Old. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the cement industry's basing point system illegal. It upheld the Federal Trade Commission in its eleven-year-old antitrust suit against the Cement Institute and its 74 member companies. Said the Court: "[The system is] a handy instrument to bring about elimination of any kind of price competition." In fact, said the Court, cementmakers had used the system to suppress competition by 1) boycotts, 2) price cuts (against plants refusing to play ball), 3) identical bids to cement users, and 4) opposition to the building of new plants...